Bioethics and expertal psychiatry Conscience and/or representation in legal psychiatry

摘要

The recent laws regarding mental health define psychiatric illness as a loss of consciousness and understanding of consequences of self behavioral acts, evaluated by loss of discernment. As discernment represents the main criteria of responsibility towards personal actions, this study is an attempt to present in forensic medicine, the ethical issues raised by discernments assesment. We propsoe a "mint" representation of content and consequences of own acts as a new criteria of evaluation, taking into account the modern principles of psychology and psychiatry.